The Chamber
“The Chamber” was the
first song that The Last Shadow Puppets ever created
together. This song is about the regret someone
holds after he has had to make a difficult decision.
The speaker is saying that it is torture being stuck
within his mind for such a lengthy amount of time.
He has nowhere to go and cannot get out of this
cycle of blame that he has created for himself
within his mind. The chamber that he refers to
within the song is a metaphor for his mind. He has
second guessed himself for a decision he made awhile
back and has continuously been haunted and tormented
by it. He has cornered himself, but he is beginning
to admit that he was the one to lay the foundation
for his thoughts in the first place. The only thing
that he can concentrate on is playing back old
conversations and arguments, attempting to see where
things went wrong to begin with. This eventually
ends up getting him nowhere, and he simply ends up
right where he started, blaming himself for
everything.
A piano is played for the first few seconds of “The
Chamber”, having a sound much like the sound of
falling water droplets. Drums then kick in with a
firm rhythm, and the song soon begins. Most of this
song is sung in interchanging sections by both
Turner and Kane, but they rarely sing in unison. The
last roughly 48 seconds of the song contains ghostly
sounds such as those that would be played in the
background of perhaps a paranormal or supernatural
movie. The noises are a great addition to the
already cryptic lyrics of “The Chamber”. The
up-tempo beat combined with the eerie tones within
the song follows along the same lines of the themes
within “If You Were There, Beware,” a song written
by Arctic Monkeys.
